Matthew 12:40

New International Version

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Cross References

Jonah 1:17

Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

John 2:19

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

Matthew 17:23

They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.” And the disciples were filled with grief.

Matthew 27:40

and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”

Matthew 16:21

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Psalm 63:9

Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth.

Matthew 8:20

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

2 Kings 14:25

He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

Matthew 12:8

For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

Matthew 28:6

He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.